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2024-07-01 Thread Jim Hall via Freedos-user
Hi Brian At the bottom of every email sent to the email list, there's a link back to a web page where you can unsubscribe. The direct link is this: https://sourceforge.net/projects/freedos/lists/freedos-user/unsubscribe Sorry to see you go. And you're welcome back at any time. I'm the meantime

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2024-07-01 Thread brian hite via Freedos-user
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2024-03-20 Thread crg--- via Freedos-user
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2024-01-01 Thread hipernike via Freedos-user
Hi!. Happy new year! I want to share this information that I hope it'll be useful for you. I wanted to use my usb flash drive in FreeDOS, however, I didn't found any information in the FreeDOS wiki, including the links section (I did found some useful programs and links in this mailing list), t

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2023-06-09 Thread Jim Erickson
i am attempting to get snuz running on my freedos 1.3 installation. i have a wattcp.cfg and a snuz.rc configured. however when i run snuz.exe i get "tcpopen failed" error. just wondering what exactly i am doing wrong. will gladly supply any requested files. thanks in advance. all the best, jimeri

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2023-01-20 Thread Gabriele Barbone
Thanks for answer Il ven 20 gen 2023, 19:56 Jim Hall ha scritto: > On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 12:42 PM Gabriele Barbone > wrote: > > > > Hello i have a question can freedos run on > > Power Mac G3 G4 ? > > > Not natively. FreeDOS (like any DOS) needs an Intel CPU and a BIOS; > the PowerMac has nei

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2023-01-20 Thread Gabriele Barbone
hello everyone, here is an article in Italian that talks about the twentieth anniversary of freedos https://www.zeusnews.it/n.php?c=18841 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedo

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2023-01-20 Thread Jim Hall
On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 12:42 PM Gabriele Barbone wrote: > > Hello i have a question can freedos run on > Power Mac G3 G4 ? Not natively. FreeDOS (like any DOS) needs an Intel CPU and a BIOS; the PowerMac has neither of those. Instead, you would need to boot FreeDOS from within MacOS, using a vi

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2023-01-20 Thread Gabriele Barbone
Hello i have a question can freedos run on Power Mac G3 G4 ? Thanks for answer ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2021-12-31 Thread Travis Siegel
On 12/31/2021 11:50 AM, Liam Proven wrote: On Fri, 31 Dec 2021 at 08:37, Thomas Mueller wrote: I remember OS/2 2.x and Warp could run emulated DOS and could also boot and run a specific DOS, but with limitations. I actually had a copy of OS/2 1.33 Extended edition.  If I recall correctly,

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2021-12-31 Thread Liam Proven
On Fri, 31 Dec 2021 at 08:37, Thomas Mueller wrote: > > I remember OS/2 2.x and Warp could run emulated DOS and could also boot and > run a specific DOS, but with limitations. > > I ran OS/2 from 1.3 to Warp 4 Fixpack 12 until it crashed and destroyed most > hard drive data sometime during the s

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2021-12-31 Thread Bryan Kilgallin
Hi Thomas: OS/2 2.x and Warp could boot DOS from a floppy, but I don't think even they could run it from a disk partition. I used OS/2 Warp 4. Being delighted by the speech-recognition interface! I ran OS/2 from 1.3 to Warp 4 Fixpack 12 until it crashed and destroyed most hard drive data so

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2021-12-30 Thread Thomas Mueller
Excerpt from Liam Proven: > I have been using NT since the first version, 3.1, in 1993. There is > no built-in facility or tool to run DOS under it and never has been. > That is why I asked. This is highly relevant and important to the > question. There are no "dots" to follow. > OS/2 2.

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2021-10-14 Thread Louis Santillan
It would likely be prudent to get a confirmation statement from Russell Nelson as well. Per crynwr.com nel...@crynwr.com +1 315 323 1241 voice Crynwr Software 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. Potsdam, NY 13676 On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 12:19 AM John Vella wrote: > Agree! > > On Thu, 14 Oct 2021, 07:33 Th

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2021-10-14 Thread John Vella
Agree! On Thu, 14 Oct 2021, 07:33 Thomas Mueller, wrote: > from Jim Hall: > > > > I don't know why the sources later had an "AMD" statement put on them, > > but you cannot claim "proprietary" or "copyright" on something that > > was previously released under the GNU General Public License. > > >

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2021-10-13 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Jim Hall: > I don't know why the sources later had an "AMD" statement put on them, > but you cannot claim "proprietary" or "copyright" on something that > was previously released under the GNU General Public License. > It appears that somewhere along the line, someone (at AMD?) had access >

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject) - problem with 1998 laptop

2021-01-11 Thread Šimon Dobeš
Thanks Simon -- Pôvodná správa -- Od: "Eric Auer" Komu: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Odoslané: 9. 1. 2021 14:46:49 Predmet: Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject) - problem with 1998 laptop Hi Šimon, OK I will try to explain more properly. I plugged in my Laptop. Pushed

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2021-01-09 Thread Ralf Quint
On 1/8/2021 11:54 PM, Mateusz Viste wrote: Note that running a laptop with no battery is not necessarily a good idea - some laptops rely on the battery to act as a voltage regulator. Running a laptop without its aku pack is how I fried a RAM bank in my Toshiba T1100 a couple of years ago. I rea

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2021-01-09 Thread Ralf Quint
On 1/8/2021 11:46 PM, Šimon Dobeš wrote: OK I will try to explain more properly. I plugged in my Laptop. Pushed down the power button and nothing happened. I cleaned up and I did not found anything leaked or broken. I think there is a problem with power supply or some circuits. I will keep fin

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject) - problem with 1998 laptop

2021-01-09 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Šimon, > OK > I will try to explain more properly. I plugged in my Laptop. Pushed down > the power button and nothing happened. I cleaned up and I did not found > anything leaked or broken. I think there is a problem with power supply In my experience with laptops of people I know, the most co

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject) - OS for 2002 Pentium PC

2021-01-09 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Šimon Dobeš, > Almost I forgot. > If I will install FreeDOS on that pentium PC that have about 60 GB of > Hard Disk. May I been able to install some Windows OS? (e.g. Windows 95, > 98, 2000) You can even install a current Linux on 60 GB without problems, but many modern apps will run very slow

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2021-01-09 Thread Šimon Dobeš
> > handle all operations and may explode. > > Simon > > > > -- Pôvodná správa -- > > Od: "Ralf Quint" > > Komu: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > > Odoslané: 9. 1. 2021 4:10:02 > > Predmet: Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject) > > > &

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2021-01-08 Thread Šimon Dobeš
s about FreeDOS." Odoslané: 8. 1. 2021 17:28:44 Predmet: [Freedos-user] (no subject) Hello I want to ask if FREEDOS will run on Intel Pentium old-school PC from 2002 and if it will work properly if this pc have 256 mb of ram. I have a old IBM ThinkPad from 1998 and it is great computer. But it is

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2021-01-08 Thread Mateusz Viste
using since those batteries are way old to handle all operations and may explode. Simon -- Pôvodná správa -- Od: "Ralf Quint" Komu: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Odoslané: 9. 1. 2021 4:10:02 Predmet: Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject) On 1/8/2021 8:28 AM, Šimon Dobeš wrote

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2021-01-08 Thread Šimon Dobeš
that Laptop too but I am not using since those batteries are way old to handle all operations and may explode. Simon -- Pôvodná správa -- Od: "Ralf Quint" Komu: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Odoslané: 9. 1. 2021 4:10:02 Predmet: Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject) On 1/8/20

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2021-01-08 Thread Ralf Quint
On 1/8/2021 8:28 AM, Šimon Dobeš wrote: Hello I want to ask if FREEDOS will run on Intel Pentium old-school PC from 2002 and if it will work properly if this pc have 256 mb of ram. I have a old IBM ThinkPad from 1998 and it is great computer. But it is not working. Where I can fix it? Well, a

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2021-01-08 Thread Marv
Actually, I do use PLOP whenever I have my 2nd HD plugged in. It has Windows 2000 on it. Sometimes it's handy to use certain windows programs like Disk Management, but mostly I just leave it disconnected and use FreeDos. On Fri, Jan 8, 2021 at 5:12 PM Andrew Robins wrote: > *EDIT: USB2.0 ports

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2021-01-08 Thread Andrew Robins
*EDIT: USB2.0 ports via PCMCIA adapter, I mean. On Sat, Jan 9, 2021, at 8:07 AM, Andrew Robins wrote: > You might like to consider using Elmar Hanlhofer's "Plop" boot manager > https://www.plop.at/en/bootmanagers.html to assist with booting from your > native USB1.x port. It helps with workin

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2021-01-08 Thread Andrew Robins
You might like to consider using Elmar Hanlhofer's "Plop" boot manager https://www.plop.at/en/bootmanagers.html to assist with booting from your native USB1.x port. It helps with working around early BIOS versions that did not permit /enable booting from USB as an option. (Have you checked you b

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2021-01-08 Thread Marv
For what it's worth, I'm using a 1998 Intel 440BX machine. It has a Pentium II. The network adapter on the motherboard works fine, also serial and parallel ports. The only issue I have is the USB port is non-bootable. The CD drive is bootable but it is not compatible with FreeDos. I had to install

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2021-01-08 Thread Šimon Dobeš
Hello I want to ask if FREEDOS will run on Intel Pentium old-school PC from 2002 and if it will work properly if this pc have 256 mb of ram. I have a old IBM ThinkPad from 1998 and it is great computer. But it is not working. Where I can fix it? Thx Simon ___

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject) - ems support - updated drivers!

2020-10-01 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Leo, when you have a standard install of FreeDOS, it will automatically include jemm386 or jemmex, which will have a readme in the \freedos\doc\jemm386\ directory or maybe in your case \fdos\doc\jemm386\ directory. The newest version is from 2020 and probably not yet part of the default distr

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2020-09-30 Thread Louis Santillan
You can use JEMMEX to provide EMS. Command docs are here (https://web.archive.org/web/20200205000957/http://help.fdos.org/en/hhstndrd/base/jemmex.htm). You need a line like ``` DEVICE=C:\FDOS\BIN\JEMM386.EXE RAM ``` in your fdconfig.sys. See (https://www.philscomputerlab.com/ms-dos-starter-pack.

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject) - ems support

2020-09-30 Thread Leo Kerr
haven't played with config.sys stuff in a long time so i'm not sure if this is right but is this line good? device=C:\fdos\bin\jemmex.exe emx On Thu, Oct 1, 2020 at 3:55 AM Darrin M. Gorski wrote: > > It's always nice to have a link too: > > https://www.japheth.de/Jemm.html > > > On Wed, Sep 30

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject) - ems support

2020-09-30 Thread Darrin M. Gorski
It's always nice to have a link too: https://www.japheth.de/Jemm.html On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 8:12 AM Eric Auer wrote: > > does freedos support ems and if so, how would i go about enabling it? > > you simply load himemx and jemm386 (or jemmex, which combines both). > > they both come with comp

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject) - ems support

2020-09-30 Thread Eric Auer
> does freedos support ems and if so, how would i go about enabling it? you simply load himemx and jemm386 (or jemmex, which combines both). they both come with comprehensive user manuals. in particular with jemm386, you will probably have to try some options to optimize it. regards, eric ___

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2020-09-30 Thread Leo Kerr
does freedos support ems and if so, how would i go about enabling it? ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

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2020-06-16 Thread 温鹏 via Freedos-user
hi Is there any chance to emulate isa sound card over modern usb sound card ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] (No Subject) - FreeDOS install problem Haytam

2020-06-11 Thread haytam.fr--- via Freedos-user
hey friend , sorry I did not download completely , redownloaded it and the problem fixed , I still have some issues , I found in freedos 1.2: using command pcisleep list shows my wlan device by Intel with an ? and my high definition audio device doesn't work , PS speaker works! sorry for grammar,

Re: [Freedos-user] (No Subject) - FreeDOS install problem Haytam

2020-06-11 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! My idea was that Haytam can write a more verbose description when he can use the language he likes most. Unfortunately, this text (saying he is using Rufus etc.) is not really long either? More verbose please! Longer problem description & details please! Regards, Eric > سلام عليكم ، انا الان

Re: [Freedos-user] (No Subject)

2020-06-11 Thread haytam.fr--- via Freedos-user
sorry guys , i did not download it correctly , even my browser said it completed but the hash didnt match , now after re downloading it does , sorry guys, one thing , WLAN doesnt work , even that it shows in "pcisleep l" it the last device , with intel , with wlan? , i tried installing fdnet ,bu

Re: [Freedos-user] (No Subject)

2020-06-11 Thread Ralf Quint
On 6/11/2020 12:57 PM, haytam.fr--- via Freedos-user wrote: سلام عليكم ، انا الان احاول اعادة تحميل ، قد اكون لم احملها كاملا ، انا استخدم برنامج rufus . Und 'en Ei vm Konsum... Really? -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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2020-06-11 Thread haytam.fr--- via Freedos-user
سلام عليكم ، انا الان احاول اعادة تحميل ، قد اكون لم احملها كاملا ، انا استخدم برنامج rufus .___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

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2020-03-22 Thread James Davis
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Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2019-08-21 Thread Jim Hall
Hi kaye I may have missed it, but why are you installing on actual PC hardware? Why not install FreeDOS in a PC emulator? Then you can run FreeDOS and Linux at the same time. It's very easy. You're running Linux, so you probably have QEMU already installed as part of your distribution. If you use

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2019-08-19 Thread kaye n
UPDATE It seems it installed in the USB installer itself! On Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 8:06 PM kaye n wrote: > Thank you David and Jerome. > > I used my Linux operating system's Unetbootin to create the FreeDOS USB > installer. > > It failed to boot. So I logged back in to my Linux, created a boot fl

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2019-08-19 Thread kaye n
Thank you David and Jerome. I used my Linux operating system's Unetbootin to create the FreeDOS USB installer. It failed to boot. So I logged back in to my Linux, created a boot flag for the USB flash drive using GParted. It booted. There was a blue screen and I had only "Default" to choose fro

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2019-08-19 Thread Jerome Shidel
On Mac, Linux & BSD, you can simply use the dd command line utility. Windows will require additional software. On *nix, if you’re USB drive is /dev/sdg then something like the following will do it: su umount /dev/sdg* su dd if=FD12FULL.img of=/dev/sdg Just make sure you write to the USB devic

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2019-08-19 Thread David McMackins
vmdk is a virtual machine image for VMWare. You want to use the img file. Use a disk imaging software to image your drive using the img file as the image. Regards, David E. McMackins II www.mcmackins.org www.delwink.com On 8/19/19 5:39 AM, kaye n wrote: > Hello Friends > > In http://wiki.freed

[Freedos-user] (no subject)

2019-08-19 Thread kaye n
Hello Friends In http://wiki.freedos.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page It says, *If your computer doesn't have a CDROM drive,* use the USB fob drive installer. Write this to a USB fob drive and boot it to start the install. The "Full" and "Lite" versions install the same FreeDOS, but the "Lite" instal

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2018-04-27 Thread Eric Auer
Hi JAS, > An e-mail address is not a reliable means > to find one's address: even Eric Auer had an > e-mail address in Brazil sometime ago. Website mirror, not e-mail address... > My point in sending these messages was to show > one more issue that reduces the chances for use > o

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject) JAR on Android

2018-04-27 Thread dmccunney
On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 1:22 PM, Eric Auer wrote: > > Hi! > > Actually Android is a modified version of LINUX with > stronger separation of the directories between apps > and other differences. Well, sorta. Technically, Linux is the Linux kernel - vmlizuz on installations here. If it uses a Lin

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject) JAR on Android

2018-04-27 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! Actually Android is a modified version of LINUX with stronger separation of the directories between apps and other differences. App install files (APK) for example are vaguely similar to JAR, but with DEX (which you can decompile to Java) instead of CLASS files... Wikihow says, to use Java on

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2018-04-27 Thread Dale E Sterner
I trust my mailman to deliver; he always has. Computers fail alot either from upgrades or they just die then I don't get my bill to pay on time. I'm old with luck I'll die before we all go paperless. DS On Fri, 27 Apr 2018 11:42:41 -0400 dmccunney writes: > On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 11:17 AM, Da

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2018-04-27 Thread dmccunney
On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 11:17 AM, Dale E Sterner wrote: > I get paper statments for everything and they now > all charge me for the paper version. The bank is $3 > and the phone is $5 for paper. I pay because I trust > paper. Computer software is in constant flux. > One day it works then over nigh

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2018-04-27 Thread dmccunney
On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 11:27 AM, Dale E Sterner wrote: > Sorry I didn't pick up on it. > Even Brazil is doing it, The web only said India was > doing it. Where were you looking? It sounds like your search was cursory at best. > How did the US escape this fate. A complex political system with

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2018-04-27 Thread Dale E Sterner
Sorry I didn't pick up on it. Even Brazil is doing it, The web only said India was doing it. How did the US escape this fate. cheers DS On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 16:06:38 -0700 Ralf Quint writes: > On 4/26/2018 1:34 PM, Dale E Sterner wrote: > > Can I ask what country you live in. > > I hope that do

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2018-04-27 Thread Dale E Sterner
I get paper statments for everything and they now all charge me for the paper version. The bank is $3 and the phone is $5 for paper. I pay because I trust paper. Computer software is in constant flux. One day it works then over night they upgrade and you also have to upgrade to read it. Some times

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2018-04-27 Thread Dale E Sterner
American taxes are very complex but at least we can still use paper. My tax return is 8 double sided pages. I'd sink if I didn't have QPRO to do all the math. America loves to copy Japanese and European ways, even when they're stupid. I hope this is one idea they take a pass on. cheers DS On Thu

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2018-04-27 Thread Gregg Eshelman via Freedos-user
How can a .jar be run on Android or iOS? Android is built on some bastardized version of JAVA but AFAIK nobody has yet produced a fully functional JAVA Runtime Environment (JRE) for Android. As for iOS, Apple seems to hate JAVA with as much fury as they do Flash. Apple sayeth "#%#@ Flash and JA

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2018-04-26 Thread Ralf Quint
On 4/26/2018 1:34 PM, Dale E Sterner wrote: Can I ask what country you live in. I hope that doesn't happen in the US. Well, his email address is kind of a clear indicator that he's living in Brazil... Ralf PS: It helps a lot in emails to a mailing list if one is actually putting something ap

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2018-04-26 Thread dmccunney
On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 5:08 PM, Eric Auer wrote: > The NL also love digital payments for all > everyday expenses, although studies show > that this lets people lose proper view on > their expenses. On the other hand, you in > the US must be used to pay many things on > credit, which has similar

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2018-04-26 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Dale, > Can I ask what country you live in. > I hope that doesn't happen in the US. > A lot of people don't have computers here. > Either they're too expensive or they just > don't like them. > I just can't imagine not having paper forms. For example both in the NL and Germany, you are pret

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2018-04-26 Thread Dale E Sterner
Can I ask what country you live in. I hope that doesn't happen in the US. A lot of people don't have computers here. Either they're too expensive or they just don't like them. I just can't imagine not having paper forms. cheers DS On Thu, 26 Apr 18 17:47:05 + =?UTF-8?B?Sm9zZSBBbnRvbmlvIFNlb

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2018-04-25 Thread Dale E Sterner
I use qpro to crunch the numbers I still have to get it to print the completed form out. Each year it grows a little bigger and better. I still have to hand copy it into a 1040 form. cheers DS On Tue, 24 Apr 18 17:10:46 + =?UTF-8?B?Sm9zZSBBbnRvbmlvIFNlbm5h?= writes: > On april 21 Dale E Ste

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2018-04-23 Thread Rugxulo
Tom, why do you always misunderstand? You really think I didn't know this already? On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 6:57 AM, Tom Ehlert wrote: >> DOSEMU2 (Linux-hosted) is still being worked upon, and there have been DOSEMU runs on Linux natively but still needs 16-bit DOS (kernel, shell, utils) files to

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2018-04-23 Thread Tom Ehlert
> DOSEMU2 (Linux-hosted) is still being worked upon, and there have been > efforts to port the current FreeDOS kernel to GCC (with 16-bit support > patches). Since that (also) works on x64, the latest efforts should > again continue to prolong the lifetime of DOS programs, which is good > since eve

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2018-04-21 Thread Dale E Sterner
Weather it is worth while is for Corel to decide. I used Excell at work and the only good way to program it without visual basic is to record and save. It seems to work on visual basic. Excells visual basic commands are not well documented. I have a half dozen books on Excell macro commands but co

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2018-04-21 Thread Rugxulo
Hi! On Sat, Apr 21, 2018 at 2:51 PM, dmccunney wrote: > > If you love QPro, fine. If you can still use a DOS system and DOS > applications to do what you need to do, more power to you. But if you > can, you are one of a *very* small number of people. The rest of us > cannot. And if you think

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2018-04-21 Thread dmccunney
On Sat, Apr 21, 2018 at 2:30 PM, Dale E Sterner wrote: > Yes I would purchase their updates; I already have > most of their stuff and use.it. They were a cut above > the rest of the dos software and I think they still > have users out there. I have MS Word 6 for dos; > what a real piece of junk..

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2018-04-21 Thread Dale E Sterner
I think Corel should realease their old versions FREE but be able to sell updates to their fans. I did purchase a disks full of updates from a woman who said they came from Corel. It gave me a hand full of improvements. If I see any more Corel updates - I'll buy. cheers DS On Thu, 19 Apr 2018

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2018-04-21 Thread Dale E Sterner
Yes I would purchase their updates; I already have most of their stuff and use.it. They were a cut above the rest of the dos software and I think they still have users out there. I have MS Word 6 for dos; what a real piece of junk.. I wouldn't expect big dos sales but I think their fans would be af

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2018-04-19 Thread dmccunney
On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 6:40 PM, Jim Hall wrote: > On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 5:12 PM, dmccunney wrote: > [..] >> Having it available under a compatible open source license will let >> Jim make it available as part of FreeDOS. >> >> Having it available as Freeware gives folks something they can *do*

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2018-04-19 Thread Jim Hall
On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 5:12 PM, dmccunney wrote: [..] > If Jim can convince Corel to offer source uinder a license that will > let him add it the the FreeDOS distribution, I'll be surprised and > delighted. > > If anyone actually grabs that source, and uploads new and improved > versions incorpor

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2018-04-19 Thread dmccunney
On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 5:56 PM, geneb wrote: > On Thu, 19 Apr 2018, dmccunney wrote: > >> Best case, you get what Embarcadero once did. They inherited the >> former Borland DOS products like Turbo-C, and were offering them as >> unsupported freeware downloads from a community link on their site.

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2018-04-19 Thread geneb
On Thu, 19 Apr 2018, dmccunney wrote: Best case, you get what Embarcadero once did. They inherited the former Borland DOS products like Turbo-C, and were offering them as unsupported freeware downloads from a community link on their site. There was no *paying* market for the DOS stuff, but maki

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2018-04-19 Thread dmccunney
On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 2:12 PM, Dale E Sterner wrote: > I wouldn't expect them to ever release the source but > to put it back on the market for sale, like it use to be. > Not everthing can be open and free. If you tell them you > have a million downloads they may feel there is once > again a via

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2018-04-19 Thread Dale E Sterner
I wouldn't expect them to ever release the source but to put it back on the market for sale, like it use to be. Not everthing can be open and free. If you tell them you have a million downloads they may feel there is once again a viable market for their product and will sell and upgrade their dos l

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2018-04-19 Thread Jim Hall
>> I downloaded as-easy-as from your site. >> I didn't see a "LET command listed. Its a command >> that makes dos qpro special. None of my dos macros >> would run without it. >> Maybe you could talk to Corel or who ever owns >> the copyright and see if they could bring back their >> office software

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2018-04-13 Thread Robert Riebisch
Hi Dale, > I downloaded as-easy-as from your site. > I didn't see a "LET command listed. Its a command > that makes dos qpro special. None of my dos macros > would run without it. > Maybe you could talk to Corel or who ever owns > the copyright and see if they could bring back their > office soft

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2018-04-13 Thread Dale E Sterner
I downloaded as-easy-as from your site. I didn't see a "LET command listed. Its a command that makes dos qpro special. None of my dos macros would run without it. Maybe you could talk to Corel or who ever owns the copyright and see if they could bring back their office software for FREEDOS use. Th

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2015-06-28 Thread JIM GANTES
Dears, I need your help. I try to boot to my desktop (Windows XP) via usb-flash with FreeDOS (VERSION 0.84-PRE2 XMS_Swap). My problem is that by the normal booting check disk stucks to 27%.So through freedos I try to bypass check disk but I don't know which command I have to use. Note that using

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2015-03-17 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 12:06 PM, dmccunney wrote: > > There is still potential use for DOS in the embedded space, but I > expect that is dropping as HW becomes more powerful and cheaper. > Embedded systems are increasingly built around 32 bit ARM CPUs, where > DOS is not an option but you ca

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2015-03-17 Thread dmccunney
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 2:08 PM, Don Flowers wrote: >>What do you run as your "production" OS? I'm willing to bet it's not > a flavor of DOS. > > Linux (Kubuntu [Ubuntu/Debian derivatives) is my primary OS, but FreeDOS is > my secondary OS followed by Windows 7 on one machine only because I recen

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2015-03-17 Thread Don Flowers
>What do you run as your "production" OS? I'm willing to bet it's not a flavor of DOS. Linux (Kubuntu [Ubuntu/Debian derivatives) is my primary OS, but FreeDOS is my secondary OS followed by Windows 7 on one machine only because I recently acquired an HP Elite 8000 for under $100 with W7 preinsta

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2015-03-17 Thread dmccunney
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 3:23 AM, Rugxulo wrote: > On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 7:34 PM, dmccunney wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 7:51 PM, Rugxulo wrote: >>> >>> No, many compilers make it totally transparent to the end user. So you >>> don't even have to write any non-portable code (usually). And

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2015-03-17 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 7:34 PM, dmccunney wrote: > On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 7:51 PM, Rugxulo wrote: >> >> No, many compilers make it totally transparent to the end user. So you >> don't even have to write any non-portable code (usually). And this >> goes even beyond obvious "32-bit DPMI" DJG

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2015-03-16 Thread dmccunney
On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 7:51 PM, Rugxulo wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 9:19 PM, dmccunney wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 9:34 PM, Thomas Mueller wrote: >>> >>> Maybe that was because DOS is not really made for large RAM. >> >> Editors I'm aware of that ran under DOS and edited really lar

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2015-03-16 Thread Don Flowers
I thank you all for the advice. I have compared a few editors and have decided to start with Setedit. I am updating a bible translation (The Concordant Literal Translation) which I originally compiled for my BibleWorks program using UltraEdit in Linux. The Old Testament text recently received a l

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2015-03-16 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 9:19 PM, dmccunney wrote: > On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 9:34 PM, Thomas Mueller wrote: >> >> Maybe that was because DOS is not really made for large RAM. > > Editors I'm aware of that ran under DOS and edited really large files > used spill files, keeping what would fit i

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2015-03-16 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 8:34 PM, Thomas Mueller wrote: > > Using elvis 2.2, I was able to view and edit files in DR-DOS above 1.5 MB, but > scrolling through a file of 3 MB was prohibitively slow; no such problem in > Linux. I had bad memories of Elvis. Not that it was bad in features, but

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2015-03-15 Thread dmccunney
On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 9:34 PM, Thomas Mueller wrote: > I remember using IBM's Tiny Editor, 16-bit for DOS and OS/2, in DR-DOS 7.03, > not open source. > > Tiny Editor was useful on IBM OS/2 installation floppies because of tiny > size, could edit up to about 350 KB file or a little larger, mor

[Freedos-user] (no subject)

2015-03-15 Thread Thomas Mueller
I remember using IBM's Tiny Editor, 16-bit for DOS and OS/2, in DR-DOS 7.03, not open source. Tiny Editor was useful on IBM OS/2 installation floppies because of tiny size, could edit up to about 350 KB file or a little larger, more in OS/2 1.x. Using elvis 2.2, I was able to view and edit file

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2015-02-08 Thread Marcos Favero Florence de Barros
Hi, From: dmccunney on 8 Feb 2015 15:14:17 -0500: > As mentioned, on the machine FreeDOS is installed on, I have > multiple partitions and file systems. When I set it up to begin > with, I assumed FreeDOS would use FAT16 and have the 2GB volume > size limit in consequence, so that determined the

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2014-10-05 Thread dmccunney
On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 1:16 PM, Marcos Favero Florence de Barros wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 9:06 PM, Dale E Sterner wrote: >> Just heard about LaTeX here and being curious, just want to understand - >> learn more about it. I use DOS Wordperfect 6.2 for most everything, just >> wonder >> i

[Freedos-user] (no subject)

2014-10-05 Thread Marcos Favero Florence de Barros
Hi, On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 9:06 PM, Dale E Sterner wrote: > Just heard about LaTeX here and being curious, just want to understand - > learn more about it. I use DOS Wordperfect 6.2 for most everything, just > wonder > if LaTeX can do more. Looks like its a script language like HTML that has > t

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2014-05-17 Thread dmccunney
On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 12:44 PM, TJ Edmister wrote: > On Fri, 16 May 2014 11:29:09 -0400, dmccunney > wrote: >> On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 12:31 AM, TJ Edmister >> wrote: >>> On Thu, 15 May 2014 11:30:22 -0400, dmccunney >>> wrote: On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 11:17 AM, Dale E Sterner w

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2014-05-16 Thread TJ Edmister
On Fri, 16 May 2014 11:29:09 -0400, dmccunney wrote: > On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 12:31 AM, TJ Edmister > wrote: >> On Thu, 15 May 2014 11:30:22 -0400, dmccunney >> >> wrote: >>> On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 11:17 AM, Dale E Sterner >>> wrote: >>> Oh by the way if you want to install XP on

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2014-05-16 Thread dmccunney
On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 8:59 PM, Dale E Sterner wrote: > Since MS has stopped supporting XP, you probably won't be able to get it > activated, anymore. Possibly, though "stopped supporting" means "will no longer get critical updates", As it happens, MS blinked on that - an update got issued rece

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2014-05-16 Thread dmccunney
On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 12:31 AM, TJ Edmister wrote: > On Thu, 15 May 2014 11:30:22 -0400, dmccunney > wrote: >> On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 11:17 AM, Dale E Sterner >> wrote: >> >>> Oh by the way if you want to install XP on FAT32, it will work without >>> being activated. >> >> XP on FAT32? > >

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